FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[onceamink]

You aren't playing good football when you let a team convert on 3rd or 4th and 20 plus twice on one drive. Just very, very bad football.

Something just seems off with this team.  Non-losing seasons are all I hope for with an occasional chance at a title.

[Birddawg79]

A win is a win but......
23-21 W&L wins thanks to a muffed punt snap by Catholic inside their own 20. Freshman QB for Catholic did good making his 1st start. Catholic did a great job of flipping the field on us when they had to.
W&L has some issues and baggage to get rid of. Defense needs help.

[jknezek]

Well Catholic made a huge mistake and we escaped. Seeing a lot of 2013 here. Not 2014 thankfully, but nowhere near what was expected given what came back from last year. Scrappy to the end today and a win is a win, and I'll always take them and congratulate the guys for working and pushing hard to make it happen.

[duck]

Congrats to theTigers great win!!!! : 

[jknezek]

If you want to scare the heck out of the Quakers with a Halloween costume, wear a Hampden-Sydney jersey. Serious mental stumbling block.

[duck]

Start a new streak tigers

[CMR]

Start a new streak tigers

Never say this, but I was a Tiger fan today, sorry HASA'

[HSCTiger74]

If you want to scare the heck out of the Quakers with a Halloween costume, wear a Hampden-Sydney jersey. Serious mental stumbling block.

  It didn't hurt that HSC got a boost from a 12th man named Matthew.

[jknezek]

Well I was pushing R-MC since last season. I figured they had got it together at the end of the year and brought back enough to be very solid, especially with the schedule lining up with a nice runway. But I wasn't sure they'd be this solid. That defense is looking stellar, giving up only 45 points on the year. The offense however is pretty interesting and should be giving the ODAC teams plenty of hope. What do you make of this string?

51-44-34-24-21  Yeah. Point totals game by game. I think RMC is going to need to shake things up on offense, because it sure seems like teams are seeing something in the tape every week. The other thing to keep in mind is the total record of RMC opponents stands at 8-15. Tomorrow it will be 9-16 as Averett and Methodist square off in a storm delayed game. Those 24 and 21 numbers come against the only two teams with .500 or better records.

We all knew going into the season RMC stood a chance at being 7-0 before playing what was expected to be the three best teams they face all in a row at the end. Perhaps that has changed a bit with W&L and H-SC playing below expectations, but it stands to reason that RMC needs to turn around that offensive trend against E&H and Catholic, something that shouldn't be too hard to accomplish.

Until then, I expect the Yellow Jackets to keep rolling.

Flip over to Guilford. Another team that got a heck of a run-up at the season and then stumbled at the first hurdle. Next week the Quakers get the underwhelming Generals at home. W&L's defense has proved porous, the offense was not what I expected, and the Generals are usually significantly worse on the road, so Guilford should have things their way, but given the stumble today, and an injury to Bell last week, it's hard to know what to make of the Quakers right now.

W&L, on the other hand, lines up to face the make or break portion of the season, so the errors that have plagued them so far this fall are down to the last week to be corrected. At Guilford, then home for H-SC who showed their fangs today, and finally hosting R-MC. If W&L can't clean up their act, fumbles, penalties, and a penchant for a defense that is supposed to bend but not break but has instead been bending all the way into the endzone, these three games could be extremely problematic.

[HSCTiger fan]

If you want to scare the heck out of the Quakers with a Halloween costume, wear a Hampden-Sydney jersey. Serious mental stumbling block.

  It didn't hurt that HSC got a boost from a 12th man named Matthew.

GC played on the same field.  The difference was the QB play. Cobb went 13/31 with 2 TDs and no picks and no fumbles. Miller went 7/27 0 TDs 0 picks but 4 fumbles with 1 lost. Unless GC forgot their towels I'd think both played with equally wet footballs.

[hscathletics]

If you want to scare the heck out of the Quakers with a Halloween costume, wear a Hampden-Sydney jersey. Serious mental stumbling block.

  It didn't hurt that HSC got a boost from a 12th man named Matthew.

GC played on the same field.  The difference was the QB play. Cobb went 13/31 with 2 TDs and no picks and no fumbles. Miller went 7/27 0 TDs 0 picks but 4 fumbles with 1 lost. Unless GC forgot their towels I'd think both played with equally wet footballs.

Had to leave after the first half for soccer, which was one of the most miserable games I have ever worked (easily top four, I literally keep a list), but Karsten Miller appeared like he had no experience handling a wet football. Perhaps he has uncharacteristically small hands and has trouble gripping a wet ball, I just found it odd how loose with the football he seemed.

[hasanova]

I hate games played in bad weather.  Congratulations to the Tigers.  Matthew was the winner yesterday.

[CMR]

I hate games played in bad weather.  Congratulations to the Tigers.  Matthew was the winner yesterday.

Agreed, it always an equalizer.

[hscathletics]

I hate games played in bad weather.  Congratulations to the Tigers.  Matthew was the winner yesterday.

Well he sure as heck got the best of me at soccer. Wore two layers of waterproof clothing along with waterproof boots that I can walk through a feet of water and not have my feet get even a tiny bit moist. None of it could hold up against hurricane rain. When I got home I was literally able to pour water out of my boots.

3.29" of rain at H-SC yesterday, 4.17" Friday thru today. They were only forecasting around 1" to 1.25" on Saturday. I've seen harder rain, I've even worked a game in harder rain^, but I've never seen it rain that hard for that damn long. Once it started pouring Friday night, it never let up until sometime during last night well after I hit the sack around 1 am.

Went by to check out the field today, thoroughly destroyed. Good luck to the poor folks in Buildings and Grounds that have to fix that mess, at least they have three weeks until the next home game.

I have no doubt that if this hadn't been homecoming, a game would have never been played on campus yesterday.* What we got from Matthew is more than double what we got last year (2.0") from Friday-Sunday when we had football and soccer respectively moved to Jefferson Forest HS and Lynchburg College on October 3.

^Fun fact, that game is #1 on my most miserable games worked list. It did what I thought was impossible and topped two games where the temperatures were at least in the low 20s and there was a heavy snow. I literally was not able to fully bend my fingers after both of those games

*Please note that is not me making a statement on what I believe should have happened, just stating what I think would have happened had it not been a special weekend.

[HSCTiger fan]

I hate games played in bad weather.  Congratulations to the Tigers.  Matthew was the winner yesterday.

With much respect, The HSC Tigers were the winner yesterday.